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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 27 2020, @11:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the bad-science dept.

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Paper blaming COVID-19 on 5G technology withdrawn:

A paper which argued that 5G cellphone technology could lead to infection with the novel coronavirus has been retracted, but not before scientific sleuth Elisabeth Bik wondered whether it was the "worst paper of 2020."

The article, "5G Technology and induction of coronavirus in skin cells," came from a group from Italy, the United States and Russia, and appeared in theJournal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents. The journal is published by Biolife, which asserts that it's peer reviewed but has not responded to a request for comment.

The abstract is now marked "WITHDRAWN" on PubMed and the paper has disappeared from the journal's website. The abstract has been preserved here.


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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2020, @03:45AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2020, @03:45AM (#1027987)

    what is your comment about Iran, that have any 5G (not even tests) and is one of the top countries with covid-19 for several months already? Israel sending 5G coverage via satellite to Iran?
    How about Africa countries? in cities where even 2G barely works...5G is well know for it very limited range, so no, no neighborhood countries 5G networks
    How about Brazil, the Amazonia communities with covid-19, where even satellite phone hardly work?!

    Sorry, electromagnetic fields can alter living cells, but require powerful emissions or way too close emission source (with enough power) for a way long time to do anything. And even that, taking sun bath for 10min can cause higher damage than those emissions.

    If you want to say that electromagnetic emissions may cause health problems... fine, it is still a open topic for many people (mostly because the difficulty of setting a limit, like we have in radiation, as the damage is very, very low and slow)...
    ... now trying to link it to covid-19 is plain stupid... all those pseudo-medics (even that anti-vaccine psychiatric, while a "medic", he know nothing about virus and real medicine) mix everything and link unrelated topics to prove their view, but reality show that covid show up in places where there is no mobile phone networks, no stress (another "fact" to explain covid-19 where there is no mobile phone) and even most vaccines (another "fact" to point fingers for all sort of problems)

    science works by proposing a theory, do tests around the theroy, check the facts... but then all facts must confirm that theory, not cherry-pick those that are useful discard the others that aren't. If all facts do not match the theory, go back to create a better theory ... or leave science to those what they are doing!

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  • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday July 29 2020, @09:48AM (1 child)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Wednesday July 29 2020, @09:48AM (#1028055)

    What's your comment about Hong Kong, another country that has 5g rolled out, has people practically sitting on top of each other and has comparably few Covid cases? Correlation and causation are not just two different words.

    [quote]all facts must confirm that theory, not cherry-pick those that are useful discard the others that aren't[/quote]

    Umm... when you know it, why don't you use it? Also, please understand the difference between a hypothesis and a theory. If I had 10 cents for every time some conspiracy dimwit misrepresents the term theory, I could buy Apple and shut it down.

    • (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday July 29 2020, @02:13PM

      by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Wednesday July 29 2020, @02:13PM (#1028111) Journal

      Above you refuse to even define what 5g is, and do not think the question is interesting, so how would we know the 5g in hong kong is the same as 5g in toledo? And as I stated, it varies even from company to company.

      That you do not see a problem here tells me all I need to know about your attitude to the discussion.

      I will also respond to your other comment.